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Hearst Tower

Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan is a glass tower of 2006 by Norman Foster rising from the retained six-storey Art Deco base of the 1928 Hearst Magazine Building.

Photograph of Hearst Tower in New York
Hearst Tower, New York. User:Alsandro · PUBLIC-DOMAIN

Why it matters

Included because the join is the point: a 1928 cast-stone base was left standing and hollowed out, and the new tower starts above it without disguising the seam.

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